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The results were recently published in Biological psychiatry: cognitive neuroscience and neuroimagery.

The study studied how anxiety and apathy – or a lack of interest and enthusiasm – affect people’s perception of uncertainty and their subsequent decision -making behaviors. Using a combination of behavioral experiences and computer modeling, the researchers examined how more than 1,000 participants made choices in a dynamic environment where they were to decide several times between the exploration of new options or to stick to familiar choices.

“While anxiety and apathy often occur simultaneously in clinical conditions, our results show that they really lead to opposite models in the way people deal with uncertainty and make decisions,” said Alexander Herman, MD, PHD, deputy professor of psychiatry at the U of M Medical School. “This helps to explain why these conditions may require different therapeutic approaches.”

The main conclusions include:

• Anxious individuals perceive higher environmental volatility and explore more options, especially after negative results
• The apathetic individuals consider the results to be more random and show reduced exploratory behavior
• The volatility relationship perceived to the media randomness The relationship between anxiety and exploratory behavior

“These emotional states affect both openness to new experiences and perceptions of the unpredictability of the world,” Xinyuan Yan, PHD, postdoctoral scholarship holder at the Faculty of U of M and the main author of the study, said. “For example, an anxious person could consider the labor market as unpredictable and requiring constant vigilance – obsessorly check the employment panels despite refusals. A person experiencing apathy could see the job to be sought as random, using the same CV – believing that changes will not matter.”

This research provides a new framework to understand how emotional states influence decision -making, with important implications to deal with neuropsychiatric conditions. The results suggest that therapeutic approaches could be more effective if they are adapted to how patients perceive and deal with uncertainty.

This research was funded by the National Institutes of Mental Health (R21MH127607), the National Institute on Drug Abuse (K23DA050909) and the MNDRIVE initiative of the University of Minnesota.

The results were recently published in Biological psychiatry: cognitive neuroscience and neuroimagery.

The study studied how anxiety and apathy – or a lack of interest and enthusiasm – affect people’s perception of uncertainty and their subsequent decision -making behaviors. Using a combination of behavioral experiences and computer modeling, the researchers examined how more than 1,000 participants made choices in a dynamic environment where they were to decide several times between the exploration of new options or to stick to familiar choices.

“While anxiety and apathy often occur simultaneously in clinical conditions, our results show that they really lead to opposite models in the way people deal with uncertainty and make decisions,” said Alexander Herman, MD, PHD, deputy professor of psychiatry at the U of M Medical School. “This helps to explain why these conditions may require different therapeutic approaches.”

The main conclusions include:

• Anxious individuals perceive higher environmental volatility and explore more options, especially after negative results
• The apathetic individuals consider the results to be more random and show reduced exploratory behavior
• The volatility relationship perceived to the media randomness The relationship between anxiety and exploratory behavior

“These emotional states affect both openness to new experiences and perceptions of the unpredictability of the world,” Xinyuan Yan, PHD, postdoctoral scholarship holder at the Faculty of U of M and the main author of the study, said. “For example, an anxious person could consider the labor market as unpredictable and requiring constant vigilance – obsessorly check the employment panels despite refusals. A person experiencing apathy could see the job to be sought as random, using the same CV – believing that changes will not matter.”

This research provides a new framework to understand how emotional states influence decision -making, with important implications to deal with neuropsychiatric conditions. The results suggest that therapeutic approaches could be more effective if they are adapted to how patients perceive and deal with uncertainty.

This research was funded by the National Institutes of Mental Health (R21MH127607), the National Institute on Drug Abuse (K23DA050909) and the MNDRIVE initiative of the University of Minnesota.

The results were recently published in Biological psychiatry: cognitive neuroscience and neuroimagery.

The study studied how anxiety and apathy – or a lack of interest and enthusiasm – affect people’s perception of uncertainty and their subsequent decision -making behaviors. Using a combination of behavioral experiences and computer modeling, the researchers examined how more than 1,000 participants made choices in a dynamic environment where they were to decide several times between the exploration of new options or to stick to familiar choices.

“While anxiety and apathy often occur simultaneously in clinical conditions, our results show that they really lead to opposite models in the way people deal with uncertainty and make decisions,” said Alexander Herman, MD, PHD, deputy professor of psychiatry at the U of M Medical School. “This helps to explain why these conditions may require different therapeutic approaches.”

The main conclusions include:

• Anxious individuals perceive higher environmental volatility and explore more options, especially after negative results
• The apathetic individuals consider the results to be more random and show reduced exploratory behavior
• The volatility relationship perceived to the media randomness The relationship between anxiety and exploratory behavior

“These emotional states affect both openness to new experiences and perceptions of the unpredictability of the world,” Xinyuan Yan, PHD, postdoctoral scholarship holder at the Faculty of U of M and the main author of the study, said. “For example, an anxious person could consider the labor market as unpredictable and requiring constant vigilance – obsessorly check the employment panels despite refusals. A person experiencing apathy could see the job to be sought as random, using the same CV – believing that changes will not matter.”

This research provides a new framework to understand how emotional states influence decision -making, with important implications to deal with neuropsychiatric conditions. The results suggest that therapeutic approaches could be more effective if they are adapted to how patients perceive and deal with uncertainty.

This research was funded by the National Institutes of Mental Health (R21MH127607), the National Institute on Drug Abuse (K23DA050909) and the MNDRIVE initiative of the University of Minnesota.